Time travelers then?
Photography didn't come into being until the middle of the next century.
No, it's not apparently true just because it's in Wikipedia.Apparently it is true--
Feodor Vassilyev - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
They put the Duggars to shame lol.
...Several published sources raised doubts as to the veracity of these claims. According to a 1933 article by Julia Bell[5] in Biometrika, a 1790 book of B. F. J. Hermann Statistische Schilderung von Rußland did provide the claims about Feodor Vassilyev's children but "with a caution". Bell also notes that the case was reported by The Lancet in an 1878 article about the study of twins.[6] The Lancet article states that the French Academy of Sciences attempted to verify the claims about Vassilyev's children and contacted "M. Khanikoff of the Imperial Academy of St Petersburg for advice as to the means they should pursue, but were told by him that all investigation was superfluous, that members of the family still lived in Moscow and that they had been the object of favours from the Government".[5][6] Bell concludes that Vassilyev's case "must be regarded as under suspicion".[5] Similarly, Marie Clay in a 1998 book notes: "Sadly, this evasion of proper investigation seems, in retrospect, to have dealt a terminal blow to our chances of ever establishing the true detail of this extraordinary case".[2]
ahhhhh is this really??? I saw the other day "The Duggar Family has 20 kids. I guess 2 twins and the rest kids are not twins.
The picture probably isn't doctored up, who knows it could an orphanage, grand kids......
It's the "story" that's BS. Happens ALL the time, people post bologna stories on FB all he time. It's probably where he got it. The story screams bs. Triplets, naturally are extremely rare, fertility drugs have to be involved with 4 or more, maybe even three. There pretty much a natures law about an animal can only have as many nipples it has determining how many babies it can have at once. Not positive if you can have triplets without fertility drugs, but def not 4. They didn't have those then.
I just looked at the pic again and those are a lot of adults as well, grandparent, their kids, and their spouses and all their kids most likely.
LOL I blame my poor brain that is addled by all the advil and/or benadryl (trying to reduce the swelling & pain...).
You are right- In Russia and the 1700s the record keeping was probably not the best in the world- or didn't exist especially for rural & poor folks.
Yes, or a multi-generation picture of an extended family reunion. Anyway, it wasn't taken during the time that the Russian family was supposedly propagating.As far we it could be a photo of a whole village taken for a historic event .
People, people--as Botts has already pointed out, even if the story is true, that is NOT a photo of the family.
Think--there was no photography in the 1700's--not in Russia, not in the USA, not in Europe--NONE! Think! Has anyone here ever seen a photograph of George Washington or any of the Founding Fathers of the USA?
This picture was taken at least 100 years after all those children would have been born.
So, even if the story is true, THIS IS NOT A PICTURE OF THAT FAMILY!